Christianity And Body Soul Dualism Analysis

There are two main themes that I pulled out of this article. The first is the Christian’s view on dualism, specifically mind-body dualism or body-soul dualism. The second theme is looking at the idea of embodiment. There are other themes in this article, but these were the two that stood out to me the most.
Christianity and Body-Soul Dualism Body-soul dualism has been a belief that has been held by Christians for centuries. However, according to this article by Brown and Strawn, the origin of this view is not that of Hebrew-Christian thought, but rather Greek philosophy. This philosophy originated with Greek philosopher Plato, and was brought in to Christianity during the early Church period by St. Augustine. Also, while many believe that this view is supported by the Bible, many modern scholars believe that it is not the view that the Bible supports. Rather that this view is being read into scripture, causing people to believe that the Bible supports the body-soul dualistic view. Out of this body-soul frame work, developed the idea of Gnosticism. Therefore, “much of the focus of the life of the Christian church has been on …show more content…
I especially like the embodiment view. I think that this view encompasses what the Church should be like, and how individuals should interact within the Church. I believe that God created us to be relational beings, therefore, it would make sense that we should have interpersonal relationships, and that these relationships should influence us to change in Christ. I can also see how looking at the Church as having individuals with individual stories would combine these stories and have a greater cause. To me, this seems to fit with ideas in Scripture. Throughout Scripture we see many individuals, who each have their own unique story, but God takes them and combines their stories with other individual’s stories for a bigger